I've gotten many great literary recommendations in random HN comments.

Wondering what the community at large is currently interested in!

War and peace - third attempt

A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer

Augustine's Confessions

Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge

I'm reading The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot for the second time. It's full of gems.

I read The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken and was struck by similarities to Pratchett, for instance the part where the main character heroically defeats monsters in a wood by using knowledge gleaned from an old encyclopedia that he carries everywhere, and how he ſpeakſ like thiſ when reading aloud from it, and the part about underground camels in Wales. It references The Far-Distant Oxus at one point, which I want to read (a pony adventure story written in 1937 by teenagers).

(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)

Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.

"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)

Post Soviet Britain by Abby Innes. Excellent so far (70 pages in).

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.

Currently: Moby-Dick and Termination Shock. (That the former gets brought up a lot in the latter is a coincidence.)

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, by Jeremy Utley

How to get along

Rereading Bliss by Peter Carey after opening a 45 year old box o' books from a back shelf in the shed.

It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).

Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y

“How Can I Help” by Linda Hand